Helsingin Sanomat, Finland’s largest daily newspaper, decided to celebrate World Press Freedom Day in a resounding manner. Helsingin Sanomat, which is about the Russian invasion of Ukraine, based on Counter-Strike: Global Offensive to tell people this interactively and created a secret room on the game map it prepared. Entering the room while coloring it with blood red, the players encounter striking documents about how Russia invaded Ukraine.
The developers, with whom the newspaper worked on the map, left some clues in the game for Russian players to find the map. The map is designed as an unnamed battlefield based on “a Slavic city”. In addition, the name of the map is de_voyna. Making a reference to the word “voyna”, which means “war” in Russian, the developers also hung posters of “Free Press Counterattack”.
Players who find the secret room in the map are greeted with a radio broadcast. In this radio broadcast, while the number of approximately 70,000 Russian soldiers killed in the war is given, much more information is given about the war.
“If some young people in Russia think for a few seconds about what’s going on in Ukraine just because of this game, it’s worth it,” said Antero Mukka, editor-in-chief of Helsingin Sanomat.
54192
